Donnie Marinelli

Donnie Marinelli (1911-1946) was a Tattaglia crime family caporegime. He was assassinated by the Corleone crime family after he attempted to blackmail a police chief loyal to the family.

Biography
Donnie Marinelli was born in the Brooklyn section of New York City, New York in 1911 to a family of Sicilian descent, and he made several friends among the small-time thugs and hoodlums of his home borough. He rose in the ranks of the Tattaglia crime family until he became a caporegime, and Marinelli and soldier Mikey Saleri were sent to assassinate Don Vito Corleone in December 1945. They shot him several times, and they managed to escape after Gino Amato took Frances Malone hostage.

Death
In 1946, Marinelli obtained evidence that the Corleone crime family had been bribing a police officer, and he hoped to use this information to bribe the Corleones into submission. He decided to begin a blackmail racket out of The Ambassador, so Salvatore Tessio sent Aldo Trapani to murder Marinelli. Trapani beat Marinelli savagely before killing him with a baseball bat, weakening the family.